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Hint: It wasn’t a CEO, it was the march of technology.

BitTorrent dealt the fatal blow over a decade ago (and something else would have come around if not it).

In fairness to the article, they do mention some of the later actors: Hulu gave it a good pillow smothering, but it looks like Netflix will be the one to convince everyone to pull the plug.




For me it was Youtube Red and Roku. As a kid I had some tolerance for advertisements and they weren't that bad. But after spending some time without them I've lost that tolerance. I can't watch network television anymore because they are so obnoxious.




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